Lubricant



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

\VILLIAM J. CORDER, OF ORANGE, TEXAS.

L U B R l C A N T.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 406,883, dated July 16,1889.

Application filed September 24,1888. Serial No. 286,252. (Specimens.)

T0 at whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM J. CORDER, a resident of the town of Orange,in the county of Orange and State of Texas, have invented and discovereda new and useful composition of matter to be used for the prevention ofheat caused from friction and attrition in the use and operation of allkinds of machinery, including railroad engines and cars, and all partsthereof, of which composition the following is a specification.

My composition consists of the following ingredients, combined and wellmixed in the proportions stated, viz: sulphate of zinc, six (6) parts;plumbago, six parts; borax, two (2) parts; bicarbonate of soda, two (2)parts.

The above composition is to be thoroughly mixed with any goodlubricating-oil in the proportion of about two (2) ounces to each gallonof oil, and is then to be used and applied to such parts of railroadengines and cars and to such parts of all other machinery as are heatingor liable to heat from friction or attrition in the same manner as anyother lubricating-oil is applied.

By the use of lflbliCfttlIlg-Oll containing the above composition, inthe proportion or thereabout as above stated, all heat from friction andattrition in the use and operation of all kinds of machinery will beprevented.

I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent of theUnited States The herein-described lubricating compound, composed ofsulphate of zinc, plumbago, borax, bicarbonate of soda, andlubricating-oil, in about the proportions set forth.

WILLIAM J. CORDER.

Attcst:

CHARLES E. WrrHEnsPooN, SAML. W. SHoLARs.

